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andresneri1
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Jan 20, 2026HTTP portal with the NTLM auth flow is broken on XC.
We are trying to protect an OWA365 portal with XC, but some requests with NTLM authentication show an Error 503 - Service Unavailable message in XC. I think that is the NTLM auth process because whe...
- Jan 21, 2026
XC distributed cloud does not support NTLM but it should not as NTLM is end of life from Microsoft . You should switch to kerberos as XC supports this when set to HTTP1.1 for client and server side.
andresneri1
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Jan 26, 2026Hi Nikoolayy1 !
Thank you for your help. We set the LB (client an server side) to HTTP1.1 and the flow worked fine !
- Nikoolayy1Jan 26, 2026
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This means that you were using WWW-Authenticate set to Negotiate probably and Kerberos is used if available as XC last I worked on it couple of months ago did not support NTLM even with http1.1 set.
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